Feminism Feminist Theory category: 1647 books
Women and British Party Politics
Descriptive, Substantive and Symbolic Representation
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2008
Women and British Party Politics examines the characteristics of women’s participation at the mass and elite level in contemporary British politics; as voters, party members and elected representatives respectively. It explores what this means for ideas about, and the practice of, descriptive, substantive...
Occupy Women
A manifesto for positive change in a world run by men
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Why women are still at the bottom
Despite the promises of the suffragists and feminists women today are still at the bottom. They are at the bottom of corporations, the bottom of family units and the bottom of society. As a group, women have less money, influence and opportunity than men and...
The Politics of the Body
Gender in a Neoliberal and Neoconservative Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Winner of the 2015 FWSA Book Prize
The body is a site of impassioned, fraught and complex debate in the West today. In one political moment, left-wingers, academics and feminists have defended powerful men accused of sex crimes, positioned topless pictures in the tabloids as empowering, and...
Every Grain of Sand
Canadian Perspectives on Ecology and Environment
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Universal in scope, yet focusing on recognizable Canadian places, this collection of essays connects individuals’ love of nature to larger social issues, to cultural activities, and to sustainable technology. Subjects include activism in Cape Breton, eco-feminism, Native perspectives on the history...
Jean Baudrillard
Against Banality
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2007
This uniquely engaging introduction to Jean Baudrillard’s controversial writings covers his entire career focusing on Baudrillard’s central, but little understood, notion of symbolic exchange. Through the clarification of this key term a very different Baudrillard emerges: not the nihilistic postmodernist...
Penny Red
Notes from the New Age of Dissent
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2011
In the space of a year, Laurie Penny has become one of the most prominent voices of the new left. This book brings together her diverse writings, showing what it is to be young, angry and progressive in the face of an increasingly violent and oppressive UK government.
Penny Red: Notes from...
Reception of Fairy Tale Motifs in Texts by Twentieth-Century German Women Writers, Femspec Issue 1.2
Reception of Fairy Tale Motifs in Texts by Twentieth-Century German Women Writers, Femspec Issue 1.2
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
This article discusses how cultural information and stories have been passed from one generation to the next. The fairy tales were restructured to focus more on the female's point of view. Some of these include stories with mothers and no fathers, depicting feminism and imagination in one. Critical...
Reinterpreting Menopause
Cultural and Philosophical Issues
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Reinterpreting Menopause brings together a number of reflections from a broad range of areas including feminism, cultural studies, clinical medicine, sociology, philosophy and political science and includes the voices and experiences of menopausal women themselves. In an innovative series of essays,...
Anarchy and the Sex Question
Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
For Emma Goldman, the "High Priestess of Anarchy," anarchism was "a living force in the affairs of our life, constantly creating new conditions," but "the most elemental force in human life" was something still more basic and vital: sex. "The Sex Question" emerged...
by Femen, Galia Ackerman
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
'Ukraine is not a brothel!' This was the first cry of rage uttered by Femen during Euro 2012.
Bare-breasted and crowned with flowers, perched on their high heels, Femen transform their bodies into instruments of political expression through slogans and drawings flaunted on their skin. Humour,...
Body Drift
Butler, Hayles, Haraway
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
As exemplary representatives of a form of critical feminism, the writings of Judith Butler, Katherine Hayles, and Donna Haraway offer entry into the great crises of contemporary society, politics, and culture. Butler leads readers to rethink the boundaries of the human in a time of perpetual war....
by Patricia Hill Collins, Sirma Bilge
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
The concept of intersectionality has become a hot topic in academic and activist circles alike. But what exactly does it mean, and why has it emerged as such a vital lens through which to explore how social inequalities of race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability and ethnicity shape one another?
In...
A Thinking Girl's Guide to Sexual Identity (Vol. 1, Lipstick and War Crimes Series)
Navigating Heartbreak, Survival, and the Media Matrix
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
A Thinking Girl's Guide to Sexual Identity : Navigating Heartbreak, Survivial, and the Media Matrix is the student edition of Vol.1 Lipstick and War Crimes Series by Ray Songtree,. Vol. 1 introduces us to the mind boggling reality of gender sculpting, using some of the female icons of the last 70...
Zen and the Art of De-programming (Vol.1, Lipstick and War Crimes Series)
Letting Go of Social Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Vol . 1 of the Lipstick and War Crimes Series - the Zen edition.
Zen and the Art of De-programming : Letting go of Social Engineering is the Zen edition of Vol. 1 from the Lipstick and War Crimes Book Series by Ray Songtree, with an introduction that gives the Buddhist perspective. The author...